Thursday 25 July 2013

turning to my neighbour part 1



Skeptical about writing this, because I'm not sure if I should say it or not but whatever you read would be worth while, this is an experience I need feed you with. In my solitude, I met God and knew HIM better but my immediate environment had an offer so hard for me to reject.
FRIENDS
 The ten o clock beep on my phone woke me up this Sunday morning. I switched into no service mode  based on the gruesome smell of alcohol oozing through my loins and the hangover was cruel. Gazed at the mirror from my bed and I saw my eye balls…….. I decided to sleep again. Saturday night was not prayed to repeat itself again, in a while though.

 The alcohol consumption was enormous with a twist of the female gender rubbing on your body the music was loud and the ecstatic feeling of forever was Initiated.  It seems I was having my last dose of enjoyment before heaven calls. The whole lessons in season 1 were forgotten. God created a space in filling my loneliness before, but now friends do. Sincerely I felt like a bachelor once more. 

I drank the fourth glass of water and with no sign of relief I knew I was in for a long morning I resulted to a deep sleep, after a slight try my phone rang again. This time it was a friend who missed out of the fluent grip of enjoyment the previous day.  Although it turned out to be a blessing to him anyway, else he would have been suffering from the same ache of enjoyment as I am
 


His visit didn’t last so long before she called that she missed her way and it became done on me that I never slept alone.

My wife has been out of town for a week now and she's due In 2 days. Who did I really sleep with?  How did it happen? What have I done to my marriage and is this the beginning of my doom? Lots of things roam my mind and suddenly I had to describe the road for her like I know who that was

The sleep automatically disappeared as I saw a female top hanging on my wardrobe. One I’ve not seen before. I knew my friends were up to something

The question is who is a friend? Many people define friendship in many ways but this is not an English class, so get your definition but as for me, guys in my hood that we grew up together automatically became friends.

My first season of loneliness was just being liberated by a new truth In God and Kevin was the first person to show up. He saw me studying the bible and gave a sigh of surprise like I was a devil. A call came on his phone and he told her we are clubbing tonight. I tried to advice but he brought the sparks from our past experiences. With a little conviction and my wife not in town I got dressed and off we went.  I was actually testing my new faith.

The door opened cos she left with the keys and a beauty to behold was wearing my Nike shirt and a short. The legs were straight and extremely spotless. The hair was long and for the first time I saw the beauty In Brazilian. Her skin was toned to perfection and her voice was angelic. She is obviously not of this world (I suspect River Niger). She called out baby I got you …..  And that was the last thing I remembered  

turning to my neighbors (contd tomorrow)


four seasons of loneliness season 1 contd



Look at the universe, vaster than we can measure 

He separated land from water 

The skies from the seas

Called forth all animals from the ground 

The distance of the earth from the sun

Look at a drop of dew in a spider web; perfectly round

The sun from the other planets 

As many as we are He answers all our prayers 

He is really a many breasted God 

I do not have a perfect eye for beauty like the Creator 

I do not create a perfect image, as the Almighty God.

But he told us he has made us in his own image and likeness and given us the abilities to do same as he had done how wonderful man should be that he had limited himself in this world 

How loving could God be; during creation he never disturbed man. He made everything before he made man. Historically man was the last thing God created for many reasons


·         our God does not share His glory
·         our Gods shows He owns everything 

Gen chapter 2 vs. 7: and the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. 

Shortly after this the WOMAN was made and there the problem started.

 In my seasons of loneliness I still have many questions not yet answered 


  • 1.      why didn’t the serpent come to man when he was alone
  • 2.      does it mean that the weakest part of man was that rib removed to make woman
In obedience and love to God, man respected what God has given him so well that it led to the destruction of what God had beautifully made.

All the serpent (devil) needed was just an act of disobedience and a thinking spirit thereby making man think he could exist outside his creator

And suddenly they were naked. Loneliness is a form of nakedness 

In it I discovered there is no better covering than the one that comes from above

When we deliver our energies into the activities that our spirit is allergic to we are creating a conflict in our soul and regret and destruction seems the only way out

When God created man, he gave him the powers to become a creator but not without God in the creation.
Man ate the fruit and ran, went to hide because they discovered they were naked and now shy. Please from who? Was Adam ashamed of his nakedness from Eve or the serpent or God? 

The knowledge we mostly gather outside God leads to our damnation
Not only us even our generation to come 

God knows how to clothe his people but the devil introduced clothing first and that’s why till today the kinds of clothes we wear is not to the praise of our God.

So human understand that the state we are now is a redeemed state in Christ, the pure nature and fallen nature of man has been redeemed by Christ. In all you do listen to God for direction neither your husband nor wife. Tell your spouse what God said if your spirit is aligned in Christ things will work out
Don’t eat an apple of destruction it affects generations even to come


Say no to what would make you hide from God
Get directions from God
Season 2 continues tomorrow (TURNING TO MY NEIGHBOR)
 

 

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